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[CanYoAssDigIt] Mission Accomplished

How about a giant statue of Patrick McGohan at Abu Chraib? or maybe
the star of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? If people felt that
trivialized what is going on there, would they be over-reacting?

****

Two years after "Mission Accomplished", whatever moral stature the
United States could claim at the end of its invasion of Iraq has long
ago been squandered in the torture and abuse and deaths at Abu Ghraib.
That the symbol of Saddam Hussein's brutality should have been turned
by his own enemies into the symbol of their own brutality is a
singularly ironic epitaph for the whole Iraq adventure. We have all
been contaminated by the cruelty of the interrogators and the guards
and prison commanders.

But this is not only about Abu Ghraib. There are clear and proven
connections now between the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the cruelty at
the Americans' Bagram prison in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
Curiously, General Janis Karpinski, the only senior US officer facing
charges over Abu Ghraib, admitted to me a year earlier when I visited
the prison that she had been at Guantanamo Bay, but that at Abu Ghraib
she was not permitted to attend interrogations - which seems very odd.

A vast quantity of evidence has now been built up on the system which
the Americans have created for mistreating and torturing prisoners. I
have interviewed a Palestinian who gave me compelling evidence of anal
rape with wooden poles at Bagram - by Americans, not by Afghans.

Many of the stories now coming out of Guantanamo - the sexual
humiliation of Muslim prisoners, their shackling to seats in which
they defecate and urinate, the use of pornography to make Muslim
prisoners feel impure, the female interrogators who wear little
clothing (or, in one case, pretended to smear menstrual blood on a
prisoner's face) - are increasingly proved true. Iraqis whom I have
questioned at great length over many hours, speak with candour of
terrifying beatings from military and civilian interrogators, not just
in Abu Ghraib but in US bases elsewhere in Iraq.

At the American camp outside Fallujah, prisoners are beaten with full
plastic water bottles which break, cutting the skin. At Abu Ghraib,
prison dogs have been used to frighten and to bite prisoners.

How did this culture of filth start in America's "war on terror"? The
institutionalised injustice which we have witnessed across the world,
the vile American "renditions" in which prisoners are freighted to
countries where they can be roasted, electrified or, in Uzbekistan,
cooked alive in fat? As Bob Herbert wrote in The New York Times, what
seemed mind-boggling when the first pictures emerged from Abu Ghraib
is now routine, typical of the abuse that has "permeated the Bush
administration's operations".

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: [Bizarro_UltraZine] Re: 9-foot bronze statue of BEWITCHED Samantha causes controversy...

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From: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: May 11, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] Re: 9-foot bronze statue of BEWITCHED
Samantha causes controversy...
To: Bizarro_UltraZine@yahoogroups.com

The problem is that they haven't reacted enough. It' is true that you
can find witch related souvenirs and shops in Salem, that is part of
the problem. I am fully in favor of the people that would like to make
amends for what happened in Salem in the past, and recognize they
haven't fully gotten there yet. It's true that it's 400 years in the
past - it makes it a good place to start, because it took the catholic
church 500 years to apologize to Galileo, it took the people of York
800 years to honor the Jews that were slaughtered there in their
witchhunt. So it would be a good idea to close the gap, maybe if they
start trying to do the right thing in Salem, we can expect that in a
couple of hundred years or so, the US will apologize for using
biological weapons against Cuba, or mining the harbors in Nicaragua.

I am a student of witchhunts. And as you know, I find the persecution
of innocent people to be one of the most horrific things imaginable.
of course, we always like to believe that anybody who is murdered by
the state deserves it. And if it happens to us, and nobody sticks up
for us, well, we're dead, so tough luck, people will think we deserved
it to, so that's just the way it goes.

I thought of an analogy I like better than yours - a fashion show at
Dachau, with all the heroin thin models wearing prison camp uniforms
marching gaily off to the showers. Not trivializing their suffering
at all.

On 5/11/05, tim_tt2 <tim_tt2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It sounds to me that people are over reacting...sure bad things
> happened to innocent people during the witch hunts, but like the guy
> said...it's documented in museums and though people shouldn't trivilize
> what happened...I bet if you go to Salem, you'll find a lot of witch
> related souveniers and shops.
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> It's like erecting an Alien statue in Roswell,NM
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] This should make Matt Love's day lol

They are all traitors, and Anti-American on fundamentally deep levels.

Of course, people are so narcotized by TV (and the drugs that are
advertised so heavily on TV these days) that they don't understand
this.

Being at my folks place, I have been able to follow Mike Mitchell's
advice and watch more TV. What a vast wasteland of idiocy and lies.

On the news they talked about some local fellow who died in Iraq. He
wanted so much to help the people of Iraq that he went back for a 2nd
tour. It is indeed possible that his death at the hands of the Iraqi
people who so desperately want the US military and US industry out of
their country will eventually help them. Because if enough people
like him die, the citizens of this country may eventually act on their
belief that the war is wrong, not worth it, all so dick Cheney's
colleagues at Halliburton can make a buck, etc. It's quite clear that
the administration has no intention of doing what the American public
want, and it's discouraging, but in no way surprising, that the
legislature, rapidly collapsing into a fraud and a farce just as in
Rome during the collapse of their republic.

They must be forced to act like Americans. not like fraudulent
Americans like John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, but real Americans like
Andrew Jackson and Mark Hatfield. If they are incapable of this, they
should be turned out of office, every one of them.

I know that was sort of the culmination of the rhetorical arc I had
established, but I can't resist adding - what kind of idiots will sign
up because they will get more money if they are killed? well, it will
probably work, since people are getting twice as stupid every 18
months, but I don't want to hear any more shit about how crazy Muslims
are for expecting a reward in the afterlife for an act of terror today
- American terrorists think they'll be able to spend money after they
die!

On 5/11/05, tim_tt2 <tim_tt2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> rs, 1 minute ago
>
> WASHINGTON - Congress is giving President Bush billions of
> dollars more for the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, a
> higher death benefit for soldiers killed in combat and a new embassy
> in Baghdad.
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> The spending package also requires states to issue more uniform
> driver's licenses and to verify the citizenship or legal status of
> license applicants, a provision that has prompted some states to
> threaten to sue.
>
> Bush, who gained most of what he had sought in the $82 billion
> measure, said he would sign the bill into law and praised Congress
> for showing bipartisan support for the troops and anti-terrorism
> efforts.
>
> The 100-member Senate passed the measure unanimously on Tuesday, and
> the House approved it overwhelmingly last week.
>
> "New democracies are taking root in Iraq and Afghanistan, and America
> is proud to stand with them," Bush said in a written statement. "This
> legislation will help America continue to promote freedom and
> democracy."
>
> The bill is the fifth emergency spending package Congress has taken
> up since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It raises the cost of
> the global effort to fight terrorism to more than $300 billion since
> 2001.
>
> Most of the money — $75.9 billion — is planned for military
> operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, while $4.2 billion goes to
> foreign aid and other international relations programs.
>
> The bill pays for war costs through September, the end of the current
> fiscal year. Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) of
> Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations
> Committee's defense subcommittee, said the Army already is discussing
> needing another spending bill as early as August.
>
> The president sent Congress the spending proposal in February. Both
> Republican-controlled chambers had promised to fund only items and
> programs lawmakers deemed urgent. The final legislation matches
> Bush's proposed price tag.
>
> Lawmakers packed the bill with a number of provisions, including one
> drafted by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., that prohibits money in the bill
> from being used "to subject any person in the custody or under the
> physical control of the United States to torture or cruel, inhuman or
> degrading treatment or punishment" prohibited by U.S. laws and
> treaties.
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> Durbin said the measure was in response to the prisoner abuses
> scandals in Iraq and elsewhere.
>
> Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss.,
> called the final bill "a genuine compromise between the two bodies on
> legislation that is of utmost importance to our troops who are
> deployed in the war on terror and for our allies around the world."
>
> Democrats used the bill to criticize the Bush administration for its
> Iraq policies and for failing to go through the normal budget process
> to pay for the wars. Many also assailed Republicans for tacking on
> immigration provisions.
>
> The legislation provides money for combat costs, including
> ammunition, armor for vehicles, weapons systems and other equipment.
> It also boosts the one-time benefit for survivors of troops killed in
> combat zones from $12,000 to $100,000. The increase would apply
> retroactively to families of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
> beginning Oct. 7, 2001.
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> On the foreign affairs side, the measure provides $592 million for a
> secure diplomatic compound in Baghdad, $230 million for U.S. allies
> in the war on terror, and $200 million in economic and infrastructure
> assistance to the Palestinian Authority. The bill includes $907
> million for expenses and aid related to the December tsunami in
> Southeast Asia.
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> officials Tuesday in criticizing the driver's license rules, which he
> said would create national identification cards and stick state
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> "It's possible that some governor may look at this and say, 'Wait a
> minute. Who are these people in Washington telling us what to do with
> our driver's licenses and making us pay for them too?'" Alexander
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>
> The bill toughens asylum laws, authorizes the completion of a fence
> across the California-Mexican border and provides money to hire more
> border security agents. The House had included most of the provisions
> in its version of the bill. The Senate did not but agreed during
> negotiations to go along with the House.
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> Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the bill comes up
> short in at least two areas.
>
> "We should have received much greater attention in this bill about
> our ability to succeed in Iraq," Reid said. And, immigration reform
> should have been dealt with later, he said.
>
> Overall, the measure reflects a desire by lawmakers to give the
> Pentagon what it needs while holding the line on State Department
> spending. Lawmakers provided roughly $1 billion more than Bush sought
> for defense and about $1.5 billion less than he wanted for
> international relations programs
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] 9-foot bronze statue of BEWITCHED Samantha causes controversy...

It's almost unspeakably vulgar - sort of like putting up a big statue
of Colonel Klink from Hogan's heroes in auschwitz - no, make that
jeruselem.

but the salem people deserve to have this stuffed down their throat,
because in many ways they have trivialized the state sponsored,
terrorist murder of those people.

what next? a statue of Bomb Voyage (from the Incredibles) at the site
of theTwin Towers? You betcha, good fun, harmless and pleasant to the
eye and to the touch

On 5/10/05, kdhaisch@aol.com <kdhaisch@aol.com> wrote:
> from the IMDb...
>
> A 9-foot bronze statue of witch Samantha Stephens, the
> character played by Elizabeth Montgomery on "Bewitched,"
> and paid for by the TV Land cable channel, has divided
> the town of Salem, MA, which had agreed to showcase
> the statue in a public park.
>
> Although several episodes of "Bewitched" were set in
> Salem, where Samantha attended a witches' convention,
> John Carr, a former member of the Salem Historic
> District Commission, told today's Washington Post that
> the plan trivializes the hanging of 19 citizens accused
> of witchcraft in 1692. "It's like TV Land going to Auschwitz
> and proposing to erect a statue of Colonel Klink," said
> Carr.
>
> But Mayor Stanley Usovicz noted that Salem deals with
> its tragic past in local museums. "Will this statue redefine
> Salem? Absolutely not," he told the Post. "Will it add
> to the experience of coming here? Definitely."
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Star Wars TV show to film is Australia

from a friend of mine in australia... man, first they send shoemaking
overseas, then it's airplanes and computers, now it's tv shows.
caligula is finishishing off this empire fast, aint he?

Leslie Morris <dr_spider_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
hey kiddies...

--- It was reported today that the live-action Star
Wars television series
to be filmed in Sydney, Australia.

Rick McCallum said that Australia was chosen, due to
the Government
recently extending its 12.5 per cent refundable tax
offset
to foreign films to large budget television series.

The Star Wars TV Series
- 100 hour long episodes
- Cast and crew have not been chosen.
- Series will be set between Episode 3 and 4.
- Minor characters will be featured not key
characters.
- Sydney actors and crew would be used, with a variety
of directors.

George Lucas will also be returning to Australia in
July, and will be
looking for a house to buy.
Rick McCallum will be spending time at his Darling
Point home.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] "It's about time the 2 most beautiful people in the world fucked each other!"

Maher is nuts.... Angelina Jolie is a borderline who has made herself
as ugly on the outside with all those disfiguring tattoos as she is on
the inside.

Prince Charles has a lot on the ball, but he will never get credit for
anything good he's done because people think his ex-wife was nice
because she was attractive, even though she was another sicko who made
life miserable for all around her. She somehow, supposedly, won the
hearts of the british people, and she may have - they are nearly as
stupid as us, they voted for the Labour Party again, a group of losers
that can come up with anything better than the Neo-Thatcherite Blair
(just as Americans voted for Reagan's illegitimate son, Bill Clinton,
more than once). I know that Di won the hearts of supposedly freedom
loving americans, who wish they were ruled by a genetic dynasty (don't
look, we are!). I believe that people would have come around to see
Charles as basically a decent person, victimized by duty and office
and a crazy bitch, but the crazy bitch got herself sainted while she
was involved in some crazy shit with another useless playboy shit, and
somehow that made her a saint and Chuck a goat! Charles has at least
used the disreputable office of royalty to do some good in the world,
which is more than can be said, or ever will be said about Pitt,
Jolie, Garner or Affleck.

If only Hitler and Stalin had been handsome, no doubt to this day
people would be arguing over which one of them was the most wonderful
person in the world, and lamenting that they didn't have more children
to spread their glorious genes around.

Stupid People shouldn't breed - I concur. We'd be much better off
without Jenna and Barbara. Or Dubya, Jeb, Neil, and Little Bush 4.
Or - well, you could keep going back. There was no doubt a smart
Prescott or Bush or Walker back there somewhere, but after a point,
dirty deals and political connections smoothed the way for for this
clan of inbred blue bloods.

On 5/9/05, kdhaisch@aol.com <kdhaisch@aol.com> wrote:
> Matt asked...
> > Steven Hawkings and Margaret Thatcher?
>
> No, Bill Maher said that about
> Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie.
> But I am sure it would apply to
> Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner, too.
>
> But, God, let's hope that
> Prince Charles & Camilla Parker Bowles
> never have any kids-- big-eared, wrinkled,
> stupid kids!!
>
> Or, to quote that great song from
> "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
> (1994) -- "Stupid People Shouldn't Breed"!!!
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Support 'Em

"Do not confuse the warrior with the war."
-John Kerry

From right wing to liberal, scolds (the more broad minded of them)
continue to assert that it is permissible (Who asked them?) to hold an
anti-war position, as long as you keep it to yourself. Regardless of
your opinion of what the troops are doing, you must encourage them,
because they are based on this particular patch of earth (except for
some of the mercenaries, oops, I mean contractors).

* I love Stravinsky's music, but I give him no credit for composing it.
* I admire American Jeffrey Daumer, although what he did was not okay.
* Genocide is an atrocity, but that's hardly the fault of those who
do it.
* I hate Ralph Nader, I just dig his deeds.
* The words of Emo Phillips are hilarious, but what does he think he
is, a comedian?
* Mengele was a saint who did nothing but sin.
* Witch hunts: bad. Witch hunters: Go team.
* That goddam Buckminster Fuller thought he was so smart, just
because his ideas were.

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Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] Stranger's Free Classified Musician Ads

Anyone remember that column in the Cooper Point Journal, years ago,
called "Thoughts n Shit?"

Matt Love wrote:

>"guitars, bass,drums/w back up vocals? Needed. i've got lyrics out the
>ass! i want folks who want to write music to them. I write stuff that
>sounds good acoustic and powered up, think godsmack, big n rich, alice
>n chains etc i'm 20 and i sing! email me powerofmusic05@hotmail.com
>[05-03-2005]
>Send an e-mail: powerofmusic05@hotmail.com"
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>I would like to suggest that this is not the best place to get lyrics
>- or anything else, except shit or a little Lithuanian delight.
>
>I offer the following example of what happens when you get words out
>of your ass:
>
>Al Franken, in the current Seattle Weekly: "A few months ago, Rush
>was talking about the minimum wage. Conservatives like to portray it
>that no one has to raise a family on the minimum wage—the only people
>who get the minimum wage are teenagers who want to buy an iPod. So
>Rush says, "Seventy-five percent of all Americans on the minimum wage,
>my friends, are teenagers on their first job." And one of the
>researchers brings this to me, with a smile, and I say, "Well, can you
>look it up?" And they look it up. The researcher goes to something
>called the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty percent of Americans on
>minimum wage are 20 and above. Forty percent, then, are either
>teenagers or below 12 [laughs]. I had several jobs as a teenager, so
>you figure, what, 13 percent might be teenagers in their first job.
>Not 75 percent. So where did Rush get his statistic? Well, he got it
>directly from his butt. It went out his butt, into his mouth, out the
>microphone, into the air, into the brains of dittoheads. And they
>believe this stuff."
>
>I should point out that John Walsh makes a good case that Franken
>talks out of his ass, too, at www.counterpunch.org, "Al Franken is a
>Big Fat Phony."
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Stranger's Free Classified Musician Ads

"guitars, bass,drums/w back up vocals? Needed. i've got lyrics out the
ass! i want folks who want to write music to them. I write stuff that
sounds good acoustic and powered up, think godsmack, big n rich, alice
n chains etc i'm 20 and i sing! email me powerofmusic05@hotmail.com
[05-03-2005]
Send an e-mail: powerofmusic05@hotmail.com"

I would like to suggest that this is not the best place to get lyrics
- or anything else, except shit or a little Lithuanian delight.

I offer the following example of what happens when you get words out
of your ass:

Al Franken, in the current Seattle Weekly: "A few months ago, Rush
was talking about the minimum wage. Conservatives like to portray it
that no one has to raise a family on the minimum wage—the only people
who get the minimum wage are teenagers who want to buy an iPod. So
Rush says, "Seventy-five percent of all Americans on the minimum wage,
my friends, are teenagers on their first job." And one of the
researchers brings this to me, with a smile, and I say, "Well, can you
look it up?" And they look it up. The researcher goes to something
called the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty percent of Americans on
minimum wage are 20 and above. Forty percent, then, are either
teenagers or below 12 [laughs]. I had several jobs as a teenager, so
you figure, what, 13 percent might be teenagers in their first job.
Not 75 percent. So where did Rush get his statistic? Well, he got it
directly from his butt. It went out his butt, into his mouth, out the
microphone, into the air, into the brains of dittoheads. And they
believe this stuff."

I should point out that John Walsh makes a good case that Franken
talks out of his ass, too, at www.counterpunch.org, "Al Franken is a
Big Fat Phony."

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Historic language alert

I haven't heard much talking today - could be the human race is
slipping into a sub-verbal condition - so I will republish a language
alert first distributed on my last birthday, Sept 10, 2004 11:41 AM
(and you don't want to wait until the last minute to decide what to
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A commentator on Democracy Now, incensed over election issues in Florida:

"This shenanigrous behavior must stop!"

A woman (convicted felon) on Weekday this morning wanted to have his
voting rights

"reinstored"

CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television

The NYTimes piece said that NPR is not experiencing the same pressure
as PBS, because they have a greater degree of autonomy due to the huge
endowment from Joan Kroc. But I think a plausible alternative theory
is that they have already given in to conservative bias.

I got the following reply from Palast's people when I asked them if
his treatment at KUOW had changed:

Hi Matt,
NPR have been really bad and utterly gutless. Several times we've had
what appear to be enthusiastic producers wanting Greg on the air only
to cancel after having a brief pre-interview chat with him.
Go figure...
Regards,
LENI

Which didn't really answer the question, I asked, but they are busy,
out doing real journalism. I enjoy his e-mail updates, I'm getting
news I don't get from the government propaganda outfit. And speaking
of which, Chomsky mentioned several events that I never heard about on
NPR, how about you folks?

I have not heard back from the Nader people yet.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: FAIR <fair@fair.org>
Date: May 5, 2005 10:24 AM
Subject: CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television
To: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>

FAIR-L
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Media analysis, critiques and activism

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2508

ACTION ALERT:
CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television
Chair cites dubious evidence of public television's "liberal bias"

May 5, 2005

A front-page New York Times story (5/2/05) added to mounting evidence that
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) under chair Kenneth
Tomlinson is pressuring public television officials to produce more
conservative programming, and to rein in shows it perceives as liberal.

"The Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is
aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other
conservatives consider liberal bias," reported the Times, adding that CPB
pressure has prompted "some public broadcasting leaders-- including the
chief executive of PBS-- to object that his actions pose a threat to
editorial independence." An unnamed senior FCC official used even starker
terms, telling the Washington Post (4/22/05) that the CPB under Tomlinson
"is engaged in a systematic effort not just to sanitize the truth, but to
impose a right-wing agenda on PBS. It's almost like a right-wing coup. It
appears to be orchestrated."

As a private, non-profit institution, the CPB is tasked by Congress to
distribute funds to public broadcasters with a view toward balance.
Although it was intended to shield public broadcasting from political
influence, the CPB has long since become a mechanism for transmitting
Congress' ideological desires to public broadcasters.

Tomlinson says the CPB is only trying to rectify liberal bias in public
television-- a dubious role for an official tasked with shielding public
broadcasters from prevailing political winds. But Tomlinson has presented
little evidence of any pervasive left-wing bias in public broadcasting; in
fact, his only specific criticisms seem to be aimed at the program Now,
which was, until recently, hosted by Bill Moyers.

Tomlinson was instrumental in the development and funding of the Journal
Editorial Report, a program that features the Wall Street Journal's
hard-right editorial board and was supposed to be a "balance" to Now
(although unlike the Editorial Report, Now frequently had guests whose
views differed from those of the show's producers). The CPB's ideological
influence has grown as it has become increasingly staffed by White
House-friendly board members and officials. In addition to Tomlinson,
major Republican Party donors Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines were
added to the board in 2003. Earlier this year Ken Ferree, a former aide to
FCC chair Michael Powell, was made both chief operating officer and
interim president of the CPB.

If Tomlinson and his CPB colleagues are doling out public broadcasting
funds based on the premise that PBS's left-wing slant must be corrected,
then they should first be required to show the public that such a bias
exists. Contrary to those familiar charges, a 1999 FAIR study found that
the news and public affairs programming available on PBS affiliates
displayed an elite, pro-business slant. The FAIR survey examined the
regular public affairs programming-- news, talk/interview, business and
documentary-- during a two-week period in late 1998. The findings
indicated that PBS shows often mirrored the narrow range of debate
available in the mainstream media:

-- Government officials (50 percent), professionals (31 percent --
overwhelmingly journalists) and corporate /Wall Street representatives (11
percent) dominated the debate over domestic politics, leaving little room
for consumer advocates or public interest voices.

--Only 22 percent of the sources were women;

--On economic stories, corporate/Wall Street sources dominated (75
percent), with labor unions rarely being heard (1.5 percent of sources).
Not a single representative of organized labor appeared in discussions of
corporate mergers or of layoffs.

If the CPB is truly interested in "balance" on PBS, they might want to
investigate why so many affiliates regularly air business and investment
programs (Nightly Business Report, CEO Exchange, Wall Street Week With
Fortune), some of which are distributed by PBS, but have no shows devoted
to labor or consumer rights. They might ask why PBS stations have long
featured talkshows hosted by conservatives (McLaughlin Group, Think Tank
with Ben Wattenberg, Tony Brown's Journal) but none hosted by
progressives. (The Tavis Smiley Show, arguably the closest thing to a
progressive talkshow on public TV, mostly interviews actors, musicians and
other cultural figures.)

PBS has also demonstrated a curious double-standard when it comes to
policing conflicts of interest. In 1993, PBS distributed The Prize: The
Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, a documentary series funded by
PaineWebber, a company with significant oil interests; almost every expert
featured was a defender of the oil industry. PBS carried Living Against
the Odds, a 1991 special on "risk assessment" funded by the oil company
Chevron that asserted, "We have to stop pointing the finger at industry
for every environmental hazard." In 2002, PBS distributed Commanding
Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, a look at globalization funded
by global corporate entities like BP, FedEx and Enron.

Yet PBS has rejected documentaries dealing with labor issues-- even
historical features dealing with 19th century labor struggles-- because
they received funding from labor unions. Defending Our Lives, a film
about domestic violence, was rejected in 1993 because one of its producers
was the leader of a battered women's support group. In 1997, Out at Work,
a film about workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians, was
rejected because it was partially funded by unions and a lesbian group.

The whole point of public broadcasting is to be an alternative to
commercial media outlets-- in part by creating a platform for dissenting,
marginalized and controversial views that for-profit networks won't air.
To try and apply Republican appointees' notions of "balance" to every PBS
or NPR program, as the CPB has suggested, would almost certainly stifle
those voices.

The CPB has recently appointed two ombudsmen to, as NPR reported
(4/28/05), "review the journalism that airs on PBS and NPR member
stations, along with programs from other public broadcasters such as
Pacifica Radio and Minnesota Public Radio."

Given the current partisan make-up of the CPB, this arrangement could
serve as a cover to de-fund programming that Republican members of the CPB
find objectionable, and to promote and enhance funding for shows that
serve and promote conservative interests.

ACTION:
Let the CPB know that it is the left and not the right that has been
traditionally excluded from public broadcasting. Remind them that public
broadcasting is supposed to serve as a platform for dissenting and
controversial views-- not simply another forum for conservative and
corporate voices.

CONTACT:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Phone Numbers:
202-879-9600
800-272-2190

mailto:comments@cpb.org

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[songwriters and poets] Re: The Brook: You read the poem, now hear the song!

Joe Swordfish received some feedback on The Brook (posted at
www.soundclick.com/SongPoet)

I'm not sure what '"isDanteisnotDante." ...LOL!' menas, but I'm sure
that Joe was pleased with "Cool stuff" (that one would look good in
the ads in the music magazines (though she came back an hour later
with "Now DUCK!" which confuses me - perhaps she would like some duck
calls mixed into the birdsong? In fact, I help make that happen. I
need to find a poem about ducks or ducking and send it to Joe - I'm
sure he'll be responsive, he usually does whatever I suggest.

"The music isn't bad..." the kind of press the Rolling Stones have
been longing for, lo these last 25 years or so. But then he has to go
and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "the processing on
the vocals makes them impossible to understand."

Joe said that at first he was like totally pissed off, but then he
went back and listened to it again, and he have to admit that Eorthman
was right! So he said that after that, he was really pissed off,
because he sent this to some friends to listen to before he posted it,
and did he hear a word about it being hard to understand? Of course
not! Sheesh, and they call themselves friends?!? So Joe had to eat
crow and pretend to be all humble and shit.

--- In songwritersandpoets@yahoogroups.com, anns_rose
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
Any moment now, we have the answer to the musical question:
"isDanteisnotDante." ...LOL!

Cool stuff, Joe.

anns_rose <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> to songwritersand.
More options 12:19 pm (2½ hours ago)

Now DUCK!

On 5/4/05, eorthman <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> The music isn't bad, but the processing on the vocals makes them impossible to
> understand. What's the good of setting a poem to music if the words to the poem are
> converted into electronic noise?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Swordfish <jswordfish@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [songwriters and poets] Re: The Brook: You read the poem,
now hear the song!
To: songwritersandpoets@yahoogroups.com

I'm working on it.... prior to vocoderization of my vocal part, it was
understandable but even worse acoustic noise.

Another songwriter list I just joined seems to have vocalists
littering the premises... surely one of the 2910 members on this list
could be a singer who would like to join Kameshwar and me playing to
appreciative audiences in casinos and half-way houses across the
country? Or at least sing on a recording?

and Joe's favorite post and his reply:

On 5/4/05, byrdbrane2 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> If you touch any of my shit without my permission I'll sue you straight into a halfway house, motherfucker.

I can't blame a man on that, you wrote the damn shit.

But consider, song sharks offer this kind of service for hundreds of
dollars, I'm doing it for free. I am working on a way to entirely
automate the process, so that people can generate musical
accompaniment to their poems with the push of a button. After that,
automatic computer generated music videos. Everybody will be able to
turn their personal computer into their own personal 24/7 music
channel. Everybody broadcasting, nobody listening. My God, it will be
beautiful.

But don't worry, Byrdbrane, your poems are safe from molestation. They
are too long.

[iChat] As we suspected all along

Well, duh!

They may SUSPECT this is true now, but they KNEW it was true 18 months
ago when they were twice as smart. 18 months from now, they will be
on the street with a tin cup, but fortunately they will be so stupid
they won't care - they'll think they have jobs, and they'll be voting
Republican. That's how it goes.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Darci Chapman Hanning <darcilee@u.washington.edu>
Date: May 5, 2005 7:51 AM
Subject: [iChat] As we suspected all along
To: ichat@u.washington.edu

"Data from the library job market and mounting anecdotal evidence show
that there is cause for alarm. The number of full-time, professional
positions in libraries is dwindling, salaries continue to be
depressed, more entry-level positions are being liquidated or
"deprofessionalized," and qualified job seekers are having trouble
securing work. Meanwhile, an industrywide MLS recruitment drive is in
full swing, ensuring another large crop of graduates will be spilled
out into the job market each year. Even with this bumper crop of new
professionals, library administrators complain about the lack of
qualified applicants for available positions."

Full article: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA527965

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[PlansFromOuterSpace] Find A Grave's John 'Bunny' Breckenridge entry

I am pleased that my "Plans From Outer Space" group has been active
lately, with some actual information being shared. I hope more people
will subscribe; if I can become a respected figure in
PlansFromOuterSpacology, perhaps those Koreans that have filmed "Plan
17 From Outer Space" and "Plan 19 From Outer Space" will send me
copies. So please join my group!

PlansFromOuterSpace-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tor Groupies <torgroupies@yahoo.com>
Date: May 3, 2005 9:40 AM
Subject: [PlansFromOuterSpace] Find A Grave's John 'Bunny' Breckenridge entry

Dear Mr. Smith;

Thank you for giving me the truth in the matter.

There is a lot of homophobia today and more so a few decades back.

Maybe I'll even leave some virtual flowers on Bunny's grave.

Best Wishes

Kyle Brinkmann

Adrian Smith <trouserpressbaby@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

--- Michael Wilk <gloomman96@hotmail.com> wrote:

---------------------------------
John "Bunny" Breckinridge didnt sexually abuse young
boys. He was
looking after two teenaged boys, the sons of some
floozy. I think the
story goes that "Bunny" took them to a gay bar (!),
one of the boys
propositioned an undercover cop, and "Bunny" went to a
correctional
facility, where he became known as "Queen of the
Laundry". The story
is in Rudolph Grey's book "Nightmare of Ecstasy", upon
which the Tim
Burton film "Ed Wood" was based. According to Vampira,
there was a
televised hearing of the trial, and there was "Bunny",
adjusting his
makeup!

That's a great story. I love bunny's performance in
Plan 9, and Bill Murray's take in Ed Wood. This looks
like a book I'm going to have to order some time off
Amazon marketplace. I just wish their international
postage wasn't so high!

http://www.geocities.com/emergofilms - My short films website

http://www.geocities.com/trouserpressbaby/movie_collection.html - See
my entire movie collection!

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cinema_undergr. ...
More options May 2 (23 hours ago)

Dear Ed Wood Fans;

Today I "interred" John "Bunny" Breckenridge on the Find A Grave
website (www.findagrave.com).

Breckenridge is best remembered for portraying the alien ruler in Ed
Wood's 1959 "Plan Nine From Outer Space".

Due to Breckenridge's checkered past including being convicted of sex
offenses involving young boys I really only did this for Ed Wood's
fans. I kind of find it hard to think we should honor or even remember
those who abuse children.

Also if anyon has any information on where Valda Hansen was buried I
would appreciate being forwarded that information.

Tor Groupies
President

Kyle Brinkmann

MAILING ADDRESS:
Tor Groupies
C/O Kyle Brinkmann
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Language Watch: The Downward Spiral

As you folks know, I have been using deterioration of language skills
to track the speed at which human intellectual capacity diminishes.
What started out as a snarky satire on insufficient and unnecessary
ideas I was exposed to in the MLIS program at the U of W have for me
become a serious theory, one that is supported by evidence as
powerfully as the theory of global warming. I am concerned that the
rate of deterioration is compounding (Thank you, Sugarzareh, for
supplying examples culled from your field observations of teen
thugwads. Other readers are invited to submit theirs as well). Here
are just a few recent examples I've encountered:

Word Coinage at a recent meeting I was at:
Jane Doe: Devisory
John Doe: Insultive

[Sorry for the pseudonyms, I suspect they may be paranoid ego surfers,
and I don't need any grief over something so petty.

From a list I'm on: "I also ask for comments and except them." [Me
too, but up until now I thought I was the only one who would admit it.
Most people brag about accepting comments]

Headline in a recent Tacoma News Tribune: "Police Kill Man With
Knife" [Are the cops economizing on brutality?]

Cherif Bassiouni, on last Thursday's Democracy Now: Because they were
useful to the US after the invasion, they [Afghan warlords] "were
rewarded with impunity for their past crimes."

A huge number of examples of human idiocy from a recent press conference:

Bush: "I take him for his word"

Bush: "Natural gas can only be transported when you liquefy it. When
you put it into solid form."

Bush: "I can only speak to myself"

Reporter: "Is this what's nominating Democrats to oppose your
judicial candidates?"

[CanYoAssDigIt] Previous Post Explained

The attachment that gave the previous (Let Comcast...) post meaning did
not go through to the board. Individual subscribers should have received
it via email, though. Anyway, Ill paste it in: (The message on top was
sent to Comcast)

I forgot to mention in that last email that what Tony offered on the
phone was for me to take $50 off my first bill, pending my receipt of
the rebate. But, I paid that first bill, and now I'm begging for you to
apply it to the second bill.

So, I'm asking for less than what I was promised

According to what Comcast told me, the rebate is due to arrive in the
next three business days. (After what I've experienced so far today, it
seems unlikely that that will happen.) But, for the sake of argument,
let's assume you weren't lying about when the rebate will arrive. So, if
I got the rebate and put it in the mail the following day, that would be
three days later than if I mailed the payment the next business day
(Monday).

Upshot: What you are so stubbornly arguing about amounts to a three-day
delay in your receipt of payment. Which, I suppose I have to add yet
again, is what you told me you would do.

I just wanted to get in every last detail, to show the full extent of
how hysterically ridiculous your recalcitrance is, before I start with
the publicity.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Subject:
Re: Web Form Submission: Billing/Invoice Question
From:
Joe Sibley
Date:
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:43:16 -0700

To:
Comcast Seattle

That's odd, where I come from an employee's refusal of a request to talk
to his/her supervisor is a serious offense. There seems to be a
pervasive confusion in your corporate culture of the concepts of "can't"
and "won't."

No notes, eh? Do you think I made the whole thing up? Failing to make
notes is Tony's problem, not mine. (When I was on the phone, I didn't
make any notes about having to pay for service, but I'm doing it
anyway.) Could the absence of notes be due to this bait and switch
pitch being SOP?

I'll find a way to take this to a higher level without your help,
Christopher. This email will be forwarded eventually, so I would like to
make a suggestion to whomever I deal with next: An extra measure of
goodwill is lost when staff apologize for inconvenience when they are
adding to inconvenience.

This bill is still under dispute.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable. I apologize for any
inconvenience you have been experiencing.
There are no notes on your account to indicate that the $50.00 rebate
wold be applied to your account in the way you described. I am unable
to escalate this for you.

If you have any more questions feel free to reply to this e-mail, or you
can chat with one of our Online Customer Support Specialists 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week at

http://www.comcastsupport.com/sdcuser/asp/default.asp

Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Sincerely,

Christopher Comcast Online Customer Support

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

Next level of authority, please.

One more time, processing protocols are irrelevant. The issue is Comcast
reneging on a verbal contract. I am more than 99% confident that you
indeed can bypass the process, but just don't want to. By what mechanism
you fulfill your promise is of no concern to me. I just want you to do
it. If it's true that you can't fix this for me, then your customer
service department is astonishingly poorly run. I'm sure this issue has
come up many times before.

Any disinterested person who knows anything about telemarketing will
tell you that it's extremely likely that what Tony told me was part of a
script. I didn't ask for any details about use of the rebate. He offered
them unbidden. He repeated it several times for emphasis. Evidence
points to this being part of the standard sales pitch.

But, whether Tony's offer was SOP or not, he was representing Comcast.
And I want Comcast to do what he said you would. I'm not asking a lot.

If I have to send many more of these emails, I'm going to ask for
compensation for my time and effort to correct your error. If I go as
far as I can and your top executives insist on stonewalling about a
slight delay in receiving $50 (cash flow problem??), that one of your
sales reps committed to, then I'll go with DSL. I much prefer
high-speed, but DSL will do- unless, of course, the DSL provider lies to
me, in which case I can go to a different DSL provider. I think I can
find a decent one, because they operate in a non-monopoly environment
and have incentive to treat their customers fairly.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for contacting Comcast. I sincerely apologize for any
unpleasant experience you had recently with your Comcast service and
thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. However, the rebate
is processed thru protocols we have previously explained. We regret
that we cannot bypass that process.

If you have any more questions feel free to reply to this e-mail, or you
can chat with one of our Online Customer Support Specialists 24 hour a
day, 7 days a week at

http://www.comcastsupport.com/sdcuser/asp/default.asp

Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Sincerely,

Deborah M. Comcast Online Customer Support

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

Comcast,

I'm afraid your response is unacceptable.

What your phone sales rep did is known as bait and switch. When I was
calling to request Comcast service, I was in an unusually good mood, and
I think this is why I was off-guard and not mindful of the fact that
offers made vocally (as opposed to in a fixed medium) can easily be
reneged on. I try to be trusting, but it rarely pays off. In that phone
call, you held me to my words. I ordered service and agreed to pay for
it. You took all the info I provided as true. So, what I said mattered,
and I'm holding Comcast to the same standard.

I thought that my first email today was only a formality. Now I see that
you're going to make me fight to hold you to your word. You are taking
my valuable time to correct a problem of your own making.

The method of processing your rebates is irrelevant to the topic at
hand. I'm aware of on-line payment and its advantages. Please, respond
to my concerns without further advertising.

Chisti,

Please refer this message to your supervisor or someone who has the
authority to do the right thing and make good on offers made by Comcast
personnel.

Comcast Seattle wrote:

Dear Joe,

Thank you for taking the time to contact Comcast today. I'm very sorry
for any inconvenience it may cause you; however, the $50 rebate cannot
be applied to your Comcast account in the manner you have requested.
The rebate that you are scheduled to receive actually gets processed
through a third party vendor, and Comcast cannot process a payment in
that manner. You are responsible for the current amount due on the
account. The rebate will be processed and sent to you as a check via the
Third Party Vendor.

Thank you for your patience and understanding with us in this matter.
If you prefer to complete you billing transactions online, I believe you
will find our Online Bill Pay site useful. You can review your billing
and account status via the Online Bill Pay site at
http://www.comcast.com/payonline

With Online Bill Pay you are able to:

* View and print your billing statement
* Update your credit card information (VISA - MasterCard - Discover -
American Express)
* Setup or Stop automatic account payment via credit card * Setup or
Stop automatic Electronic Funds Transfer
* Make a one-time payment
* View all recent charges and payments
* Change your billing address and other personal information
* Update your preferred statement method
* Access your account information 24 hours a day, seven days a week from
home, the office or even while out of town.

The security of your information is important to us. We use the Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to protect the security of your information.
SSL technology encrypts your private information to protect it from
being decoded by anyone other than Comcast. You will be able to tell
that you are in secure mode because, depending on the browser, you will
see either a padlock or a solid key in the lower section of the browser
window. Please make sure that you are using a browser that will work
with the Online Bill Pay site.

For Windows users, you would need Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape
Navigator 4.0 or higher.
For Macintosh Users, you would need Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or
Netscape Navigator 6.2 or higher.

I hope this information helps you, but if you have any other questions
regarding your account, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can
always chat with one of our Online Customer Support Specialists 24 hour
a day, 7 days a week at:
http://www.comcastsupport.com/sdcuser/asp/default.asp
Thanks again for contacting Comcast.

Sincerely,

Christi Comcast Online Customer Support

Original Message Follows:
-------------------------

The following information was submitted from the Comcast Web site:
Name: Joe Sibley
Address: 422 Phoenix St SE
City: Olympia
State: WA
Zip: 98501
Home Phone: 360-786-9301
Email: joesibley@comcast.net
Re: Web Form Submission: Billing/Invoice Question
Browser: Other
OS: Windows XP
-
Comments:
I would like to get confirmation in writing of what I was told in the
phone conversation in which I first requested Comcast service. Tony,
your sales rep, told me that I could defer $50 of my payment until my
rebate in that amount reaches me in the mail. I have paid my first
bill ($135.14). The second ($35.15), due "on receipt" is outstanding.
So, I would like to apply $50 to the $35.15, leaving me $14.85 to
credit to the next bill. My service was installed on 3/30, and the
rebate is supposed to arrive in five weeks, so I expect it in the mail
very soon. Okay? Thank you.
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[CanYoAssDigIt] Let Comcast Administer Social Security

I don't know if anyone has the patience to wade through all this, but
it's instructive.

The reason we should privatize government is that services administered
directly by the state are inflexible, bureaucratic, uncaring,
inefficient, unreceptive, dishonest, stupid, etc. The glorious private
sector, on the other hand...

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Re: [CanYoAssDigIt] These kids today....

I don't know which was more horrifying, the bad picture on the TV or
mom's putting pens in the victim's mug. Maybe a therapist instructed
him to document the housekeeping with a view to suing for a Mercedes.
Mom is definitely eccentric (by that, I mean her house is slightly more
stuffed with junk than mine) but I'll be convinced she's truly insane if
she doesn't literally boot out this whiny, parasitic little shit.

Matt Love wrote:

>Can you believe the little rat, exposing his own mother to world wide
>criticism on the world wide web, for this perfectly normal, every day
>kind of behavior? Does he think he's the next Eminem or something?
>Sheesh...
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>Date: Apr 29, 2005 11:36 AM
>Subject: [MIDIChat] Hooked on ebay
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>Talk about someone who has a packrat syndrome.
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>http://www.randomthink.net/misc/ebay/
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